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Borster, der navnlig Ted Enden af Leddene er tydelige og 
temmelig lange. Laarleddet er ogsaa her dot st0rste og 
hos den fuldt udviklede Hun temmelig opblsest paa Grand 
af de sig i dets indie udviklende Mg; det liar ved Enden paa 
Ydersiden et lidet knudeformigt, med en lsengere Borste 
besat Fremspring. De 2 Lmgled er indbyrdes omtrent af 
ens Laengde, og det sidste af deni liar i nogen Afstand fra 
Spidsen i Yderkanten en ustedvanlig lang og tynd Borste, 
fiestet til et knudeformigt Fremspring (se Fig. 2 h). Tar- 
salleddet (ibid.) er meget lidet og soin hos foregaaende 
Slsegt sserdeles bevsegcligt forbundet med foregaaende Led. 
Det er af trekantet Form og gaar saavel paa den indre 
som ydre Side ud i et vinkelformigt Hjorne. Fodleddet 
er forholdsvis smalt og stmrkt krummet, med Yderkanten 
besat med en regelnnessig Rad af fine Borster. Inderkan- 
ten springer frem ved Basis i Form af en smalt tilrundot 
pladeformig Udvidning, hvortil er fiestet 2 stserke, fortil 
krummede Torner og umiddelbart foran dem en Del simple 
Borster. Langs den ovrige, jevnt indbugtede Did af Inder- 
kanten Andes bagtil en Rad af 6 meget smaa fortil krum- 
mede Torner. hvorpaa folger en sanuuenhmngende klar 
Chitinpla.de, til Siderne af hvilken staar nogle faa fine 
Borster. Endekloen or smrdeles lang, naesten af Fodled- 
dets Laengde, leformig, og kan med Spidsen boies ind mod 
den basale Udvidning af Inderkanten. Bikloerne er yderst 
smaa og rudimentfere, og rager ikke frem foran Ende- 
kloens Yderkant, hvorfor de meget let kan oversees. Hos 
Hannerne er Gangfoddeme (Fig. 2 i) udmserkede derved, 
at 2 det Hofteled gaar ved Enden ud i en temmelig stoerkt 
fremspringende, noget konisk, med Borster besat Fortsats, 
paa hvis Ende Kjonsaabningen har sin Plads. Desuden 
har Laarleddet foran Midten i Yderkanten en til et smalt 
Ror uddraget Fortsats (se ogsaa Fig. 2 k), der indeholder 
Mundingen for den saakaldte Kitkjsertel, ved hvis Secret 
iEggene sammenkittes og fiestes til de falske Fodder. 
Integumenterne er temmelig tynde og gjennemsigtige, 
med mindre tvdeligt udpraeget Skulptur. 
De til de falske Fodder hos Hannen faestede ydre 
iEgmasser (se Fig. 2 b) er som hos foregaaende Slsegt tal- 
rige og af kugledannet Form, men iEggene forholdsvis 
betydelig storre. 
Farven er ialmindelighed hvidagtig, lidt spillende i 
det gronlige. 
Forekomst. Jeg har taget denne Art i store Maeng- 
der paa et Par Punkter ved vor Syclkyst, Risoer og Aren- 
dal, hvor den forekom paa 6 — 12 F. D., Mudderbund. 
Rimeligvis forefindes den ogsaa langs vor hele Vestkyst, 
men er paa Gnu id af sin ringe Storrelse og lidet ioinefal- 
dende Farve, hidtil bleven overseet. Det nordligste, jeg 
har truffet den, er ved Tjoto i Nordland. 
Udbredning. 1 Modssetning til Fhoxichilidium femo- 
tum synes denne Art at vaere en udpneget sydlig Form. 
scattered bristles, distinct and rather long, more especially 
at the end of the joints. Also in this animal the femoral 
joint is largest, and in the fully developed female rather 
dilated, by reason of the eggs developing within; at the 
extremity, on the outer surface, it has a small, nodular 
projection, bearing a longish bristle. Tim 2 tibial joints 
are of about equal length, and the ultimate one has, 
at some distance from the point, on the outer margin, an 
unusually long and delicate bristle attached to a nodular 
projection (see fig. 2 h). The tarsal joint (ibid.) is ex- 
tremely small and, as in the preceding genus, very flexibly 
articulated with the preceding joint. Its form is triangular, 
and alike on the inner aud the outer side it passes into an 
angular corner. The propodal joint is comparatively slender 
and strongly curved, with the outer margin beset with a 
regular series of delicate bristles. The inner margin pro- 
jects at the base in the form of a narrow, rounded, lamel- 
lar expansion, to which are attached 2 strong, anteriorly 
curving spines, and immediately in front of them a num- 
ber of plain bristles. Along the remaining, uniformly 
concave part of the inner margin, occur, posteriorly, a row 
of 6 very small, anteriorly curving spines, to which suc- 
ceeds a thin continuous cliitinous plate to whose sides a few 
delicate bristles are attached. The terminal claw is exceed- 
ingly long, well-nigh the length of the propodus, falci- 
form, and admits of being bent in, with the point against 
the basal expansion of the inner margin. The auxiliary 
claws are remarkably small and rudimentary, not project- 
ing beyond the outer margin of the terminal claw, and 
may thus be easily overlooked. In the males, the ambula- 
tory legs (fig. 2 i) are distinguished by the 2nd coxal joint 
running out at the extremity as a rather strongly project- 
ing, somewhat conical, bristle-beset process, on the end of 
which the sexual opening is located. Moreover, the 
femoral joint has, just anterior to the middle on the outer 
margin, a process, drawn out to a narrow tube (see too 
fig- 2 k), which contains the mouth of the so-called aggluti- 
native gland, whose secretion serves for gluing together the 
ova and fixing them to the false leg's. 
The integuments are rather thin and translucent, 
with not very prominent sculpture. 
The outer egg-masses attached to the false legs in the 
male (see fig. 2 b) are, as in the preceding genus, numer- 
ous, and globular in form, but the eggs relatively a good 
deal larger. 
The colour is generally whitish, with a slight greenish 
play. 
Occurrence. — I have met with this species in great 
abundance in two localities on the south coast of 
this country, Risoer and Arendal, where it occurred at a 
depth of 6 — 12 fathoms; mud bottom. Probably it is 
found, too, along the whole of our west coast, but has 
from its trifling size and inconspicuous colour been 
passed by unnoticed. The farthest north I have taken it 
is at Tjoto in Nordland. 
Distribution. — Unlike Fhoxichilidium femoratum, 
this species would seem to be a well-marked southern form. 
